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Greenpeace describes incident as “one of the top three environmental disasters in Europe in the last 20 or 30 years”
Helen Pidd
Hungary opened a criminal inquiry yesterday into the toxic sludge spill that killed at least four people after a reservoir burst at an aluminium plant.
As workers struggled to deal with the flood, the EU urged authorities to do everything they can to keep the slurry from reaching the Danube and affecting half a dozen other countries. Greenpeace yesterday described the spill as “one of the top three environmental disasters in Europe in the last 20 or 30 years.”
Hundreds of people had to be evacuated after the gigantic sludge reservoir burst on Monday at a metals plant in Ajka, a town 100 miles southwest of Budapest, the capital. At least four people were killed, three are still missing and 120 were injured as the torrent flooded homes, swept away cars and disgorged 1m cubic metres (35m cubic feet) of toxic waste on to several nearby towns.
Local officials say 34 houses in the village of about 800 were too badly damaged to be refurbished. Soldiers, emergency workers and volunteers were trying to shovel out the mud yesterday, but the clean-up is expected to take months.
Last night workers were pouring 1,000 tonnes of plaster into the water to try to bind the sludge and keep it from flowing into the Danube, just 45 miles away. On Tuesday, experts said it would take the sludge about five days to reach the river, one of Europe’s key waterways. South of Hungary, it flows through Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Moldova and Romania before emptying into the Black Sea.
The Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, said authorities were caught off-guard by the disaster because the reservoir had been inspected only two weeks earlier and no irregularities had been found. A criminal investigation has been opened, said police spokeswoman Monika Benyi.
The prime minister suggested someone would be held accountable for the disaster.
The Guardian, October 7, 2010
Task 17. Study the word list and get ready to work with Audio Track 11.1.
to play down sth to bring sth under control
ups and downs alkaline levels
to dry out to turn into
relief workers fragile
plume tide
Task 18. Listen to the lead in Audio Track 11.1 and transcribe it.
Task 19. Listen to Audio Track 11.1 in full and:
- identify all the terms in it, write them down;
- find epithets and adjectives that are used with words sludge and ecology, put them down.
Task 20. Watch the lead of Video 11.4 to grasp its idea.
What does the sentence ‘ Toxic mud then spewed into nearby village’ imply stylistically? Translate the sentence into Russian trying to preserve its stylistic colouring.
Task 21. Take a look at the words in the box used by reporters to expand on the notion toxic sludge. Which of the words are closest in meaning to the notion in question?
Which of the words are emotionally charged?
slime spill leak spew sewage
Task 22. Watch Video 11.4 in full and get its idea.
Task 23. Fill in the gaps(sentence fragments of Video 11.4 script). What stylistic devices are used in the sentences below?
1. The …1… of sludge is …2…
2. Emergency workers are trying to …1-3… but this disaster is …4-5….
3. Smaller waterways and streams have already been …1… by the toxic …2….
4. It …1-2… from the reservoir at an industrial plant…
5. Many of the small towns and the villages in its path are …1… in poisonous …2…
Task 24. How emotionally charged is Video 11. 4? Why is it so? Find several epithets to prove your point.
What can you say about the emotional colouring of Audio Track 11.1?
Task 25. Compare the content of the news article in Task 10 with Audio Track 11.1 and with Video 11.4 and fill in the grid below.
| Mass media text | Similar facts | Different facts |
| Article | ||
| Television package | ||
| Radio wrap |
Task 26. Make a sentence by sentence simultaneous translation of Audio Track 11.1 into Russian in class.
Task 27. Watch Video 11.5 lead and get its idea. Fill in the gaps to make its lexical and stylistic analysis.
…1-2…, …3-4… and …5-6… could be soon back on the supermarket shelves. EU laws which …7… years of …8-9… in the 1980s have been …10… to try to help consumers through the …11…
Task 28. What stylistic means are used in Video 11.5 lead?
Task 29. Study the word box. What lexical units prevail in it?
gnarly pot belly to nurture fearsome vegy kinky
topsy turvy gruesome curvy to ditch parsnip cauli
Task 30. Watch Video 11.5 and close the gaps in the sentences below. What lexical units are abundant in the clip? Why?
1. They grow in the same fields, …1… by the same …2… and are …3-4… by the same people.
2. But until now al fruit and vegetables were not …1… In the EU there was a form of …2-3… but no more.
3. The days of the …1… carrot, …2-3… turnip and …4-5… parsnip are back.
4. And it’s …1-2… the …3-4…
5. Before today it would have been …1… to sell this carrot because it’s not the right …2….
6. And this …1-2… would have been …3-4… to. …4… it’s …5… small.
7. “Our customers want to have …1-2… vegetables which …3… they are going to peel and chop, and use in cooking. …4… they don’t mind they are slightly more diverse.”
8. …1… do we really want …2… greens and …3… fruit?
9. “…1… you assume if these …2… ones are cheaper you’d buy those, would you?”
10. …1… before we start transforming our …2-3… into the …4-6… there are still some things that have to be the right size and shape.
11. Apples – …1…, they’ve got to be apple shaped. …2-4…? Pears, they …5-7… be pear-shaped.
12. …1…, even they can be sold in non-standard form as long as it’s made clear to the …2… purchaser that they are lesser …3… that the great …4… staff.
Task 31. Watch the interviews with the three buyers again. What vegetables does each woman prefer? Why?
Task 32. What the interview with Nick Taylor and say how much food is thrown away in the UK due the tight size specification of fruit and veg.
What word does the farmer use to characterise such state of things?
Task 33. Why does the journalist use so many colloquialisms in his report?
Task 34. Watch Video 11.6 (in Folder_Video_11.6) and give definition of the notion mash-up. The following sentences may help you do it.
1. …1… and …2… …3… that …4… …5-7… of …8-9… look to set become even more popular than ever before.
2. …1… and …2… are all the raids of …3-5…, …6… and …7….
Task 35. Watch Video 11.6 again and answer the questions.
1. What mash-up is being played up in the opening scenes of the clip?
2. Faces of what English politicians do you recognise in the mash-up?
3. What is necessary to create a good mash-up?
4. The clip is closing with the Poke mash-up in which a man is saying ‘I’m sorry’? What is the name of this politician? Search the Internet to find for what he is apologising.
Task 36. Watch Clips 1 - 4 in Folder_Video_11.6 and say what major political event in the UK they parody (reflect). What politicians are featured in them? The clips are in two formats, both .mpeg and .avi.
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